Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Isaku Yamahata]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 06:54:53PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
> 
> I'd like to do a few things different this time around.  I don't think 
> the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out 
> of it.  I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit.  The 
> 0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end of the 
> cycle.  We also had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 and 0.11 
> so I think a shorter cycle is warranted.
> 
> I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month 
> cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles.  
> I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for about a 
> week.  This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I think.
> 
> I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release.  
> Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release 
> (target-i386 centric).  Please add or comment on items that you'd either 
> like to see in the release or are planning on working on.
> 
> o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed
> o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target 
> completely converted to qdev
> o storage live migration
> o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs)
> o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue)
> o KSM integration
> o in-kernel APIC support for KVM
> o guest SMP support for KVM
> o updates to the default pc machine type
> 
> Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere.

 o newer chipset (which is based on Q35 chipset)
 o multiple pci bus 
 o PCI express (MMCONFIG)
 o PCI express hot plug (not acpi based)
 o PCI express switch emulator

Although there is no PCIe emulated device at the moment, 
this will be a fundamental infrastructure for PCI express native
direct attach.

thanks,
-- 
yamahata